Favorite Apps:


  • Reading:
    • Q Books:
      • Buy each one separate
      • Reads the sentence, word, spells the words, and records your voice
      • Pictures are simple, but move
    • Me Genius:
      • Read by a human young boy voice
      • Reads automatically and highlights text as it goes
      • You can stop the text
      • Some are free, some cost mone
    • Model Me Going Places
      • Social stories to prepare kids for going to the doctor, grocery store, hairdresser, restaurant, playground, and grocery store.

  • Math:
    • Kid Klok
      • Clock that the students can manipulate and set
      • The clock will then read the time aloud
  • Forming Letters:
    • I Write Words:
      • Lite version is free
      • Guides student to form the letters with their fingers
      • Spells a word and then the pictures moves
      • Mistake tolerant
    • ABC Tracer (or ABC Phonics)
      • Another letter tracer
  • Spelling:
    • First words:
      • Physically manipulate letters to spell the words
      • Errorless
  • Writing:
  • Art:
  • Music:
    • Sounds Drop
      • You can set bars for the balls to bounce off of, each bar having a different tone
  • Games:
    • Waterslide
    • Scrabble
    • Elmo's MonsterMaker
      • Create monsters by choosing body, eyes, nose, etc...
      • After making your monster, play and interact your monster.
  • Organization:
    • Popplet:
      • Graphic organizer app.
      • Can add photos to bubbles; email as a pdf or jpeg
  • File Sharing:
    • Drop Box
  • Studying:
    • Cramberry
      • Flashcards that you can program on your computer and then sync it with your device
  • Productivity:
    • Tallymander:
      • You can create intricate tally systems that will complete computations
    • Percentally:
      • Easily collect tallies and convert to percentages
    • iAnnotate pdf:
      • free app to highlight and annotate pdfs
    • Time Timer: Visual timer
    • Visual Timer:
      • Great Visual timer with customizable features
    • Scheduler:
      • Make picture schedules with audio/video support and alerts/reminders.
  • Speech and Language:
    • Talking Tom
      • Free
      • He repeats your speech in a cute kitty voice
    • iSock
      • You can pick a sock puppet and he opens his mouth while you talk
    • Fotobabble
      • Upload a photo, record your voice – done!
    • ABA Apps
      • Many apps with vocabulary
    • ArtikPix
      • Flashcards and matching (concentration) game to practice different sounds.
      • Built-in method of data collection to calculate percentages and export for documentation..
  • OT
  • Cause and Effect
    • Balls
    • Magician
    • Big button box
    • Bloom HD
    • Wheels on the bus
    • iSteam
    • Fog (this is currently free!)




Tips and Tricks:

-Press the "home" and "on/off" buttons at the same time to grab a screen capture. The image will automatically be saved to your photos.